Posts by James G. Rickards

Garbage-gate may be behind us by the time you read this, but it certainly did stir up the presidential campaign during its final week. It began during Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally on October 27, when a relatively unknown comic in a warm-up role told a bad joke about Puerto Rico being “a floating island…

The first three years of Trump’s first term (2017-2021) were paralyzed by the Russia hoax. This was an elaborate con job cooked up by Hillary Clinton (using a washed-up MI6 spy who wrote a fake dossier) and the U.S. intelligence community (CIA and FBI) that took the fake dossier, used it as a predicate for…

We’re well aware of the weaponization of the Department of Justice and the use of FBI goon squads to carry out the orders of neo-fascist Attorney General Merrick Garland. These actions include the illegal raid on Donald Trump’s home in Mar-a-Lago, Florida, when agents stormed the premises in body armor and rifled through Melania Trump’s…

The Biden-Harris administration’s attacks on free speech and honest research are unrelenting. Biden and Harris label anything they disagree with as “misinformation” or “disinformation.” That’s an all-purpose way of smearing their political opponents without regard to the truth. These efforts have included collusion with Big Tech, such as Google, Facebook, and Twitter (before Musk bought…

In 2009, I facilitated and participated in the first-ever financial war game conducted by the Pentagon. We did this in a war game facility (Codename: WALRUS) at the Top Secret Applied Physics Laboratory between Baltimore and Washington DC and close to the headquarters of the National Security Agency and the U.S. Cyber Command. I was…

If the matter were not so serious, it would almost be amusing to watch the collapse of the Georgia election interference case against Donald Trump and 19 alleged co-conspirators. The charges were brought under Georgia state law by Fulton Country DA Fani Willis. Legal scholars considered the charges a stretch from the start, but the…

The use of gold as money and gold standards in various forms existed from antiquity until gold backing broke down entirely in 1971. Still, central banks and finance ministries hold over 37,000 metric tonnes of gold in reserve. Why? The answer is that gold is still at the base of global monetary systems. It’s simply…

Despite the doom, gloom and fearmongering surrounding the current presidential campaign, there is one bright spot shining through. That involves the willingness of smart candidates like JD Vance, Kari Lake and Donald Trump to call out so-called “experts” to their face and often on live air. Political discourse and policymaking have lived too long in…

The BRICS met in Kazan, Russian Federation last week. The BRICS have a rotating presidency, and this year Putin is president of the BRICS. The world was waiting for the announcement of a new BRICS currency. That may come in time, but not yet. The new currency may be ten years away. What happened instead…

It was reported last week that billionaire Bill Gates threw $50 million behind the Kamala Harris campaign. He did not do this openly. It was done through a so-called dark money entity called Future Forward that is a major fundraiser for the Harris campaign. Gates’s dark money contribution was leaked and reported by the New York Times. This…